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October 2011

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy2. Submissive to everything, open, listening3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house4. Be in love with yr life5. Something that you feel will find its own form6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind7. Blow as deep as you want to blow8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind9. The unspeakable visions of the individual10. No time for poetry but exactly what is11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea19. Accept loss forever20. Believe in the holy contour of life21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind22. Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better29. You're a Genius all the time30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

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Here is one my favourite resources/inspirational thingies. I used to keep this list pinned up over my desk (but then I moved and took it down and didn’t put it back up again).

Here they are, for you (my favourite is #14 – love the word “teahead”)